cve-2007-0537
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2007-01-29 16:00
Modified
2024-08-07 12:19
Severity ?
Summary
The KDE HTML library (kdelibs), as used by Konqueror 3.5.5, does not properly parse HTML comments, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and bypass some XSS protection schemes by embedding certain HTML tags within a comment in a title tag, a related issue to CVE-2007-0478.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://osvdb.org/32975
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/23932Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/24013Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/24065Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/24442Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/24463Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/24889Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/27108Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://securitytracker.com/id?1017591
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200703-10.xml
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20070206-1.txt
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:031
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:157
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_6_sr.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0909.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/457924/100/0/threaded
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22428
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-420-1
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0505Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1117
cve@mitre.orghttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10244
Impacted products
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